Amb. Linton F. Brooks presents NSSC March Webinar

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Ambassador Linton F. Brooks presented on ” The Implications of the Trump Nuclear Posture Review” as part of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium’s webinar series. The talk was co-sponsored by the Department of Nuclear Engineering, and the Nuclear Policy Working Group.

Amb. Brooks also met with NSSC Fellows and Affiliates prior to the talk, as picture below:

Ambassador Brooks served from July 2002 to January 2007 as Administrator of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, responsible for the U.S. nuclear weapons program and for the Department of Energy’s international nuclear nonproliferation programs.  In the early 1990s, he served as Chief U.S. Negotiator for the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.  Ambassador Brooks has over five decades of experience in national security, much of it associated with nuclear weapons, including service as Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Director of Defense Programs and Arms Control on the National Security Council staff and a number of Navy and Defense Department assignments.  As a Navy submarine officer, he served on four nuclear-weapons capable ships.  Ambassador Brooks is now an independent consultant on national security, a Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Defense University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control and of the Board of Managers supervising Sandia National Laboratories the State Department International Security Advisory Board and an advisor to five other Department of Energy national laboratories.

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